Summary

Hi guys!

It's been a while, but despite the fact that Amy has left me, returned to the land of moderate climate, I am still here. To those who care, here is how the last few months have gone:

Amy left.

I had finals.

I did well during my first semester.

I went home and visited with my family.

And had first Christmas on the 23rd.

On Christmas, I flew to Jamaica with Diana and her family.

Had 2nd Christmas.

On New years, I celebrated in Jamaica.

Mostly by sleeping until 1145, when I got up again.

Went back to Spokane and hung out with the other side of Diana's family.

Had 3rd Christmas.

Diana and I shipped 19 boxes and flew ourselves to Fairbanks.


Then we picked up those 19 boxes, bought a bunch of second-hand furniture to fill in what was missing, and have ourselves quite the home.  And it's getting even better (as of a few hours from now, it should be completely better).

While gone a dog ripped up a small bit of the carpet, we suspect it was Chloe.  This led to a series of escalating ideas that went from replacing the small area of carpet with carpet, to replacing it with linoleum (or vinyl or laminate, or whatever it is), to replacing the whole floor with it.  So we have false wood floors being installed (between now and the last paragraph, I learned that it might not get finished today and our house might be in disarray for at least another day.  Cool...).  We can't have wood because we live on permafrost and things shift and the house gets jacked up and lowered every so often. And because we had false wood paneling on the walls, and we can't live in a place with that much wood look, we painted the walls a very nice cream color and it looks real nice.  And soon it should look even nicer. I'll show you pictures once it's complete.


On another note, we got a puppy. Her name is Tali (like tally) and she was born on Christmas (at least by our calculations that she was 6 weeks old on the 5th).Here are some pictures:

The day we brought her home 11 days ago.  She's already grown from that size.

She finally got to play with a dog that wasn't a litter-mate.  And although she was quite timid at first, she got into it pretty quickly.  In fact, we are visiting with Nuna (the black lab) again right now and they have been playing hard.  Tali is passed out. 

The pond by our house is frozen and the landlords used a snow blower to clear off a section for ice skating.  It has since snowed and covered the ice with a few more inches of snow, but it's still clear enough that Tali can run around on it.

She's a snow dog!

She has an affinity for sticks.  She is pretty good at going on walks, and we are trying to teach her both to walk on leash, and stick around us when off leash.

That's the gist of my time since we last wrote. I hope you enjoyed.  I have more pictures for you of my very Alaskan day a few days ago. So stay tuned!